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CITY OFSOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Commission, in the past, they didn't need as much legal support. Or they were relying primarily on an outside counsel for a certain number of hours per month. But in talking with the new co- directors, they would really like day to day support. So,that is something we'll be expanding,too. Previously, we hadn't heard that message before. So, that is an additional ask. And then as you know, the new Area Plan Commission, as well. Councilmember Scott followed up, And honestly, those are three(3) hot topics right now because of everything that's gone with what we're going to do or change with the Board of Public Safety. Of course, diversity has been key to me on that expansion, so, I'm glad to see this. And Area Plan is going to be brand new for the City. So, that's going to be a lot on one(1) person's plate and I do have a concern with that. But I like the fact that you are trying to dedicate a full-time person to that. Ms. Steele replied, Yeah, I don't see a cost savings in telling we can do this if we just hire outside people or contract people on an ongoing basis. If it's day to day support that we're going to be asked to provide, I think, in the long term, it makes sense to have a full-time person. And I'm just counting that all as one(1)body. I'm also glad you mentioned the Board of Public Safety. One(1) of the things, like I said initially, that we've been hearing over and over in these community meetings is, and I forgot who initially said it, but one (1) of the gentleman in the meeting said, "The City shows what we care about by where we put our money."And over and over again lately, people have been saying the Board of Public Safety, we want to know more about what they do, and we want to be sure that they have somebody walking through each policy and procedure with them and each initiative with them and making sure that they understand what things are. Right now, we have an attorney who's there with them at the meetings and is at their call if they have a question. But this would be a paradigm shift in how we treat it, kind of like a different department where day to day, we need to be checking in on them. Councilmember Scott stated, I like that and that's exactly what I'd say about the Diversity and Inclusion Department too. And it really says something to the public where we do put the money towards. Committee Chair White then opened the floor to members of the public. Sue Kesim, 4022 Kennedy Drive, stated, Some are more comments or suggestions. I'm revisiting some even from past years and suggesting them again. Getting something less than forty-eight(48) hours beforehand does not give us time to study it. Again, we ask that we get it two (2) weeks in advance. Budgets are planned way in advance and numbers take time to go over. So,we need them far in advance of forty-eight (48) hours. I think that we need to look at the cost of each shooting. I'm going to bring this up again. We have no local morgue which means we are taking autopsies to either Kalamazoo or Fort Wayne. We're tying up an officer for those trips because of chain of evidence. I really think we need to know the cost of a shooting. The response, the detectives, the whole works. We need to know what crime is costing. Milwaukee did a study, they said it's about $600,000 per shooting. So, I would like, if we're doing budgeting, to what our extensive crime in our City is costing. Again, we would like the detailed check book back. At one (1) time we could see all the checks that were written in the City. That disappeared. That's a lack of transparency. Those are public funds and we would like to see that come back. We'd also like to see the reports in Excel format so those of us that are analyzing figures can do it easily without having to retype all the numbers into Excel. EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 wvwnw.southbendin.gov 16